Sunday 26 March 2023

LIVE UPDATES - About 70 Ukrainian Military Surrender In DPR In Past Two Weeks, Says Source

LIVE UPDATES - About 70 Ukrainian Military Surrender In DPR In Past Two Weeks, Says Source

LIVE UPDATES - About 70 Ukrainian Military Surrender In DPR In Past Two Weeks, Says Source




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About 70 servicemen of the Ukrainian armed forces have laid down arms and surrendered to Russian forces in the past two weeks on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), an officer from a region's security agency told TASS on Sunday.







"About 70 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered in the past two weeks alone. Most of them laid down their weapons voluntarily, wishing to save their lives," the source said.


According to his data, most of them are military fighting on the Avdeyevka, Donetsk and Ugledar fronts.



Russian forces prevent transfer of reserves of Ukrainian forces in Kupyansk area



Russian servicemen of the West group of forces prevented the transfer of reserves of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Kupyansk area, and also disrupted the rotation of Ukrainian units on the frontlines, spokesman for the West group of forces Colonel Sergey Zybinsky told TASS.


"The West group of forces prevented the transfer of reserves in the area of the settlement of Stelmahovka. In addition, the fire of the crews of howitzers D-20 and D-30 disrupted three rotations of units of the Ukrainian armed forces on the frontlines in the area of settlements of Kislovka, Stelmahovka, Senkovo," he said.


Zybinsky also noted that as a result of well-coordinated actions of the Russian crew of the Tor anti-aircraft missile system, the Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle Fury was destroyed near the settlement of Nizhnyaya Duvanka.



Russian forces destroy 5 Ukrainian sabotage groups in Kupyansk area — Defense Ministry



Russia’s West group of forces destroyed five Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the Kupyansk area, the spokesman for the West group of forces Colonel Sergey Zybinsky told TASS.


"During the day, in the Kupyansk area, the West group of troops detected and destroyed five enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups from the 14th and 92nd separate mechanized brigades," he said.


According to Zybinsky, during the counter-battery fight, the artillery of the West group also destroyed two Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery systems in the area of settlements of Petropavlovka and Revucheye, a D-20 howitzer in the Prilipko area, as well as an enemy mortar crew in the area of the settlement of Olshana.








Special operation, 25 March. Main:



▪️Russia has something to answer for ammunition with depleted uranium, the Russian Federation has a lot of such weapons, but it has not yet used them, Putin said;


▪️He said that the total number of Russian tanks will exceed the number of Ukrainian tanks by more than three times, noting that the Russian military-industrial complex is developing at a very fast pace;


▪️Moscow and Minsk agreed, without violating international obligations, to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. On July 1, the construction of a storage facility for it will be completed there, Putin added;


The Ministry of Defense reported that Russian air defense intercepted 11 Ukrainian UAVs, including Bayraktar TB-2;


▪️There are all prerequisites for Avdiivka to be in an operational encirclement, said adviser to the acting head of the DPR Gagin;


▪️The IAEA announced that the director general of the agency Grossi next week will go to the Zaporozhye NPP;


▪️Zelensky said he had not received any mediation or meeting offers from China



Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:



▪️Russian forces neutralized up to 85 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored vehicles, three pick-up trucks, and one D-20 howitzer in the Krasny Liman direction;


▪️In the Kupyansk direction, Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 55 troops, two armored fighting vehicles, and two motor vehicles;


▪️Russian artillery annihilated over 155 Ukrainian troops, three armored vehicles, five motor vehicles, and one D-30 howitzer in the Donetsk direction;








▪️In the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, Ukrainian losses amounted to over 70 servicemen, three motor vehicles, and one D-30 howitzer.



The main thing from Putin's interview to Pavel Zarubin:



▪️About depleted uranium shells for Ukraine:


Shells with such uranium do not belong to the category of weapons of mass destruction, but they generate radiation dust and pollute crop areas. Russia has something to answer - we have hundreds of thousands of such shells, but so far we have not used them.


▪️On tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus:


We agreed, without violating international obligations, to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. On July 1, the construction of a storage facility for it will be completed there. This is not unusual - the United States has been deploying nuclear weapons in NATO countries for a long time.


▪️About the talks with Xi Jinping:


The leader of China is well prepared, it was interesting to talk with him, he knows the details about his country and the world economy. Xi Jinping paid much attention to Beijing's peace plan for Ukraine. But the main focus of the talks was on the economy.


▪️About the terrorist attacks on Nord Stream:


The president fully agrees with the conclusions of journalist Seymour Hersh about the involvement of the US intelligence services. Denmark responded in a streamlined way to Russia about a joint survey of the Nord Stream lines, that it does not need help, and even now this survey no longer makes sense


▪️About analogies between pension reforms in France and Russia:


In Russia, all preferential early retirement regimes have been preserved, but not in France, citizens there consider this approach to be excessively harsh. But the protests in France are an internal affair of this country.


















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